Jay Ashton

Andersen Consulting LLP provides accounting services. Its services include accounting, tax and business consulting. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

NetIQ Corp. offers software solutions. It provides identity and access management, security management, IT operation management, disaster recovery, workload migration, and unified communications and VoIP. The company was founded on February 11, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Mobilygen Corp. manufactures and sells fabless semiconductor products. The firm focuses on creating multimedia processors. Its products are used in camcorders and digital cameras. The company was founded by George T. Haber and Sorin Cismas in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Active-Semi International, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. Its products include power application controller, power management units, DC/DC converters, AC/DC converters and active direct drive led controllers. The company was founded by Steven Thu Huynh in 2004 and and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

Demandforce, Inc. provides web-based application solutions. It offers application automates internet marketing and communications, so customers can focus on running their day-to-day operations. The firm serves the dental, medical, spa and salon, automotive, optometry and veterinary industries. The company was founded by Richard E. Berry and Sam Osman in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Digits LLC provides cyber security and digital forensics services. It also offers planning, incident response, computer forensic investigation, trade secrets protection, intellectual property protection, corporate computer security, litigation support, network security advisory, data recovery and information collection and preservation services. The company was founded by Michael G. McCartney and James Domres and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

ParentSquare, Inc. offers an online communication platform for school teachers and parents. The company was founded by Anupama Vaid, Sohit Wadhwa and Linn Sillers in 2011 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Foster Farms LLC operates as a poultry processor. It owns and operates hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants. It offers fresh chicken, cooked frozen chicken and turkey, fully cooked refrigerated chicken and turkey, individually frozen chicken, saut? ready, gluten free, fresh turkey, lunchmeats and franks, pancake wraps, and corn dogs. The company was founded by Max Foster and Verda Foster in 1939 and is headquartered in Livingston, CA.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

BGC Partners LP is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products including fixed-income, rates, foreign exchange, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, futures and structured product markets. Previously a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, BCG separated from that firm in 2004. In 2005, BGC merged with Maxcor Financial Group, integrating two leading brokerage firms. This was followed by the acquisitions of ETC Pollak and Aurel in Paris. On April 1, 2008, BGC merged with eSpeed to form a world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the global marketplace. The combined company is BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP). BGC offers a full range of brokerage services including price discovery, trade execution, straight through processing and clearing, settlement and access to electronic trading services through its eSpeed and BGC Trader brands.

Tenaya Capital Inc (Tenaya Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Brian Melton, Stewart Gollmer, Ben Boyer and Brian Paul. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

FIG LLC (Private Equity) (FIG) is a private equity firm subsidiary of FIG LLC founded in 1998 by Wesley Edens, Randal Nardone, and Robert Kauffman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Instart Logic, Inc. develops cloud solutions fo web and mobile application performance. The company was founded by Manav Ratan Mital, Raghu Venkat, and Hariharan Kolam and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

LeanData, Inc. develops and operates a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) lead management platform. The firm offers router and converter sales accelerator, account and alignment management, accounting-based reporting, and account-based nurturing demand management. The company was founded by Evan Liang, Dale Chen, and Kelvin Cheung in 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Valimail, Inc. provides email authentication services. The firm offers anti-phishing, brand protection, compliance, shadow IT, office 365 migration and government solutions. The company was founded by Peter Goldstein and Alexander C. Garcia-Tobar in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CloudPassage, Inc. provides cloud server security solutions. It offers server security products purpose-built for dynamic public and hybrid cloud hosting environments. Virtual servers are cloned, migrated, and cloud-bursted. The company was founded by Carson Sweet, Vitaliy Geraymovych and Talli Somekh in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Timescale, Inc. extracts Insights from device data. Its time-series database and visualization tool designed for connected hardware. The company was founded by Ajay Kulkarni and Ajay Kulkarni and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cockroach Labs, Inc. provides data base services. The firm combines the functionality of SQL with the horizontal scalability common to NoSQL offerings and provides enterprise-grade disaster recovery. Its products include CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Enterprise. The company was founded by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and Benjamin Darnell in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Diamond Mind, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic payment services for institutions. Its products include tuitionpay, campuspay, balance, payment processing, purchase processing, purchase cards and mobile card readers. The company was founded by Katherine Novikov in 2002 and is headquartered in Potomac, MD.

Compeat, Inc. provides accounting and back office software and solutions to restaurants. It offers professional services designed to ensure the customers success with the implementation and ongoing use of Compeat Software. The firm's services include cloud service, training, system interfaces, implementation support, ongoing support, and customization. The company was founded by Harry G. Barkerding in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of GDS Link Ltd., Ser Technology Corp. is a company that enhances credit unions' lending programs with targeted and relevant prescreen offers backed by their 200+ data sources and omnichannel delivery platform. The company is based in Dallas, TX. The company provides a customized borrowing experience for credit union members and offer best-in-class reporting. Ser Technology was acquired by GDS Link Ltd. on February 01, 2022.

Tricolor Auto Group LLC provides car dealer ship and finance services. The firm specializes in auto financing, job opportunity, marketing, auto financing, hispanic market, sales, branding and auto industry. The company was founded by Daniel Chu in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

GoFundMe, Inc. provides online fundraising services. The company was founded by Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Elasticsearch, Inc. provides open source search and analytics engine services. The firm’s products include Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, X-Pack, and Elastic cloud. Its services include support, consulting, and training services. The company was founded by Shay Banon, Uri Boness, Steven Schuurman, and Simon Willnauer in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.